1. AHCAL Electronics. Status and Outlook Mathias Reinecke CALICE collaboration meeting Cambridge, UK March 16th-19th, 2012

2. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 2 Outline > Hardware Status  New AHCAL Modules  Surface Mount HBU (SM_HBU)  Scintillator ECAL-BU (EBU) > Testbeam Preparations  Multichannel Gain Equalization  Autotrigger Threshold  Time (TDC) measurements in SP2b  Power Pulsing (optional) Assembled tiles below HBU2

3. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 3 New AHCAL Modules > 6 new HBUs realized: 4 testbeam, 1 SPIROC2c, 1 spare module > 10 new DAQ setups (CIB, POWER2, DIF2, CALIB2) realized. > 4 HBUs equipped with tiles and in steady operation. Modules work fine!

4. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 4 New AHCAL modules (CERN testbeam specific) Side Interface Board and Testbeam Extender Module > 4 SIBs and 4 Extenders realized. > Extender tested: OK! > Full setup including SIB can only be tested in final testbeam cassette: Foreseen end Sept. Extender SIB

5. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 5 Surface Mount HBU (SM_HBU) > Idea: MPPC is part of the HBU: Easy assembly in one step. > Scintillator has curvature: Improvement of light uniformity. > NIU – DESY collaboration. SM_HBU

6. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 6 Surface Mount HBU (SM_HBU) Idea Reality

7. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 7 Surface Mount HBU (SM_HBU) SM_HBU backsideSM_HBU front-side > 2 SM_HBUs realized: 1 works fine, 1 has a broken SPIROC (to be replaced) > 12 MPPCs on MPPC Adapter available (from NIU), 1 assembled > Setup for SM_HBU with DAQ allocated, Scintillator not equipped.

8. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 8 Scintillator ECAL-BU (EBU) > 4 EBUs in production (boards ready, in assembly at DESY). > Commissioning at DESY with AHCAL HBU DAQ and Labview software. > Assembly of MPPC strips and scintillators afterwards. > Foreseen for electron testbeam at DESY in October (Shinshu Univ.). MPPC flexlead strips (Shinshu Univ.)

9. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 9 Testbeam Preparations Testbeam at CERN beginning of Nov. 2012 > 4 HBU2s in 1 layer. > Labview DAQ. > Details: See AHCAL session (Benjamin). > 4 HBUs equipped with 2 batches of tiles: gain of 3 HBUs: 1750000-2450000 gain of 1 HBU : 500000-1300000 > Due to the large gain spread: Channel gain equalization necessary.

10. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 10 HBU2 Channel Gain Equalization > Step 1: Measure the Single Pixel Spectra (SPS) of each channel with the integr. LED system. Extract from the SPS the channel (SiPM*Preamp) gains. > Compare with the ITEP gain measurements (results correlated?). Gain equalization: Oskar Hartbrich

11. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 11 HBU2 Channel Gain Equalization > Step 2: Adjust the SPIROC2b preamplifier gain per channel (trade-off between SPS resolution and dynamic range in high-gain mode). > Step 3: Check results by additional LED calibration run. > Gain equalization works fine for all 4 modules.

12. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 12 Autotrigger Threshold and Noise > In autotrigger mode, a trigger threshold (DAC) must be defined for SPIROC2b, which is aimed to be set to a signal amplitude (ADC) of ½ MIP. > Relation: trigger threshold DAC setting to ADC signal amplitude: > The ADC-DAC relation depends on the SPIROC2b preamplifier (PA) setting and the input pulse shape. Difficult to define a single trigger threshold setting for all channels of one SPIROC2b. Preliminary: MIP~500 ADC tics, Pedestal ~240 ADC tics  ½ MIP ~ 370 ADC tics  Trig. threshold ~ 250 DAC tics DESY testbeam data

13. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 13 Time measurement (TDC) in SPIROC2b Charge Injection Setup and prepared Operation Modes: > ILC Mode: Clock = 5MHz, achieved resolution (single channel): ~ 350ps > Testbeam Mode: Clock = 250kHz, resolution (single channel): ~ 1..1.5ns > For details: See report from Eldwan Brianne “Studies of the front-end electronics of the Analog HCAL”

14. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 14 TDC: Time Walk and Channel-to-Channel Spread > SPIROC2b channels show significant amplitude-dependent time-shifts and channel-to-channel differences. > Difficult to parameterize because of different behaviours. Channel-wise TDC calibration necessary as for ADC (MIP calibration)?

15. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 15 TDC: Considerations > Use integrated LED system for channel-wise TDC calibration. High statistics needed! To be analyzed. > Use em-shower. > For CERN testbeam use Testbeam Mode:  Smaller TDC dead-time (<2% instead of 30% in ILC mode),  event validation (rejection of noise trigger) is only possible in Testbeam Mode,  TDC ramp-to-ramp spread is negligible.

16. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 16 Power Pulsing (PP) > Aim: Switch on as short as possible before data taking starts (initial idea: 20µs). > Single-Pixel Spectra measurements show a reduced amplitude with PP. For this PP measurement, the filter capacitors on the SPIROC2b bias points were still in. Results without capacitors will follow.

17. Mathias Reinecke | CALICE meeting Cambridge | Sept 18th, 2012 | Page 17 Conclusions > 6 new HBUs have arrived, 4 are assembled with tiles and are in operation. Preparation for testbeam at CERN ongoing. > 2 SM_HBUs are ready for operation. 12 MPPC modules available. > EBU vertical is in the last steps of production. > SPIROC2c is assembled to one HBU, but still not working. Bad slow-control programming assumed. > CALICE DAQ development is interrupted, we await eagerly the publication of the new software framework. SPIROC2c on HBU2